Anna Brooks

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Anna Brooks (born June 16, 1974 ) is a British jazz musician ( soprano and tenor saxophone ) and composer .

Brooks graduated from Birmingham Conservatory in 1996 after studying jazz and classical music with honors. She first became known as a member of John Mayer's Indo Jazz Fusions , with whom she also recorded the album Asian Airs and toured India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. She has also worked with the Walsall Jazz Orchestra , The Drifters , Roy Woods Big Band and Roy G. Hemmings' Dictionary of Soul . In 2002 she presented herself at the Cheltenham International Jazz Festival , then also at the Jazz Festival Montreux ; as a result she received several composition commissions. She leads her own quintet. She is also a member of the American The Brooklyn Funk Essentials . She also wrote film music and teaches saxophone at the Birmingham Conservatory.

Discographic notes

  • My Time (2002)
  • Going My Way (2007)

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SURNAME Brooks, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (soprano and tenor saxophone) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1974